Example sentences of "were set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | accepted that if the subsequent appeal to the House of Lords were set to one side , there might be grounds for a relisting on the basis that the Court of Appeal had departed from well-established practice in resolving but one of the grounds of appeal , leaving outstanding points of appeal on which submissions had been made . |
| 2 | What emerged , therefore , was the ‘ Medium-Term Financial Strategy ’ in which annually decreasing targets were set for monetary growth . |
| 3 | Destination boxes were set on high stanchions above the ends of the upper deck and had glazed openings in the back , so no deck lights were required . |
| 4 | Entry then became based on financial rather than medical or social assessment , and in 1983 upper limits were set on supplementary benefit , resulting in a massive increase in the total national bill for supplementary benefits to people in private sector homes — from £105m in 1983 to £500m by 1986 . |
| 5 | Times being hard , annual subscriptions were set at five bob . |
| 6 | The latter were set at 90 dollars , or £pound18 a month for able seamen and firemen . |
| 7 | The right-hand combination wheels were set at one-three-seven . |
| 8 | The numbering limits on this were set at 32767 which might , at first glance seem an impressive number . |
| 9 | Total claims from spending departments were set against expected growth targets in the economy to check their feasibility . |
| 10 | The animosity between Stratford and Kilsby was to some extent personal , yet even where it was related to principles , they were set within revealing limits of assumptions , experience and motives . |
| 11 | Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war . |
| 12 | Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war . |
| 13 | ( And some of those romances were set in medieval Aquitaine of the troubadours — which certainly constitutes one common interest that drew Pound and Hewlett together . ) |
| 14 | That has certainly been true of banks since the Basle capital standards were set in 1988 . |
| 15 | Given that the minimum levels of pupil competence were set by each school district in cognisance of local circumstances , a question was raised concerning whether students who failed to reach the agreed standards could recover damages for their failure to learn , if they were able to demonstrate teacher negligence . |
| 16 | In the " picotage " method , printing blocks were studded with tens of thousands of pins or studs which were set by young women who could , after completing their apprenticeship , earn the very high wage for women of 12 to 14s ( 60-70p ) a week . |
| 17 | For all of them limits to possible action were set by economic , social , political or military necessities which were in the main the legacy of the past . |
| 18 | The prices of the operations from fillings to complicated bridge work were set by independent experts so dentists would receive a fixed income set by the Doctors ' and Dentists Review Body . |
| 19 | most were set by several … [ and ] although one compositor might set a whole book , he would not normally be working on that book alone but would intersperse work on other jobs when it was called for … |